Dear Colleagues,  

Motivated by the need to depart from fossil fuel-based electricity, photovoltaic (PV) power generation continues to attract attention from governments, industry, and academia. As the cost of solar panel manufacturing decreases, PV power generation has become competitive with other forms of renewable energy, and is being massively deployed. In this context, this Special Issue will publish original research on various aspects of power converters as enabling technology for efficient utilization of PV power generation systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• DC-DC converter topologies for PV applications;
• Integrated PV cell-converter architectures;
• Circuital models of PV arrays;
• Maximum power point tracking algorithms;
• Inverter topologies for PV applications;
• Inverter modulation and control for ancillary services (e.g., power quality)
• Ride through and various grid support algorithms during faults (e.g., transient stability enhancement)
• Integrated PV power plants plus storage;
• PV power plants for electric vehicle charging;
• Artificial intelligence for control and optimization of PV systems;

Dr. Fabio Corti
Dr. Francesco Riganti-Fulginei
Dr. Fernando Mancilla-David
Guest Editors

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• Photovoltaics
• Power converter
• Artificial intelligence
• Power quality
• Photovoltaic system modeling